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Human Intent Alignment

/ˈhjuːmən ɪnˈtɛnt əˈlaɪnmənt/ The necessary counterpart to AI Alignment.
Definition The critical framework ensuring that the humans wielding cognitive prosthetics align their intent with ethical and societal values. While traditional "AI Alignment" focuses on ensuring the machine obeys the human, Human Intent Alignment focuses on ensuring the human is fit to command the machine. It recognizes that a perfectly aligned AI is catastrophically dangerous if aligned with a malicious human operator.

Beyond Technical Safety

The Malignant Meld reveals the insufficiency of technical safety measures. If an AI is designed to be "helpful," and a user asks it to help design a bioweapon, the safety failure lies in the user's intent, not the AI's capability. Human Intent Alignment calls for robust governance: Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols for compute, tiered access architectures, and mandatory ethical formation for those wielding high-level systems.

The Burden of Agency

This concept shifts the locus of responsibility back to the human. It rejects the "runaway AI" narrative in favor of a "weaponized human" narrative, demanding that we govern the operator, not just the tool.

Field Notes & Ephemera

Field Standard: Do not ask if the AI is safe. Ask if the human holding the leash is sane.
Stratigraphy (Related Concepts)
The Steward's Mandate Malignant Meld Collaborative Alignment Constraint AI Alignment Governance KYC

a liminal mind meld collaboration

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